, she opened up about this historic moment, saying,"This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It's for the women that stand beside me: Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox.
And it's for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened."To celebrate all the times the Oscars got it wrong, comment below with your favorite performance by a black actress in a leading role that should have led to an Academy Award win.
And yet, somehow, her career went downhill afterwards. Happens a lot to actresses for some reason.
Kiiinda a cheat to leave out Hattie McDaniel as it was ‘supporting’ not lead
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sorry, but i don´t have this 30 sec.
No black women on staff, huh. Welp! I’m open for freelance BuzzFeed if you ever need to fix your diversity issue over there 🙃
And look at what happened to these black women after winning these awards.
That’s how you send a message Buzzfeed!